Clothing Education Changed My Life For The Better

When I arrived in Canberra 5 years ago, I had to wear all my "going out" clothes (3 items) to work. The other clothes were not acceptable. Luckily I was being paid Travel Allowance for the first 3 months and went to buy "Winter" clothes. I made the mistake of buying clothes that were too heavy for me and caused me to overheat most of the time, not to mention they were all in earthy tones. After about a year, I could see I was still struggling so I went to an Image/Colour Consultant and things started to get better from there. Over a period of 6 months I had upgraded my wardrobe to consist of the "Cool Winter" colours. I started getting comments, like gee that bright purple looks great on you. You are looking so well, blah blah. So up until now, Ive only concentrated on have clothing that meets with the colour and image requirements.

Now Sabah comes into my life. The fabulous dressmaker. I'm updating my wardrobe to be only natural fibres. They are tran seasonal apparently, and I've just noticed how comfortable they really make me feel. For most people this means an ironing obsession but I refuse to iron. Most of my clothes will be the scrunch dry type. I am hoping to cull allot of clothes to end up with a small amount of items, 1 Wool Coat, 1 Jacket, 3 Linen Trousers, 4 T Shirts, 3 long dresses, 2 Tunics and 3 long skirts. This maybe over kill but I will fine tune it as I go along.

Even though it cost $380 to have the colours and image done, I know it has saved me money in the long run. Prior to having the consultaion, I would buy clothes because 1. they were in my size 2. I liked the colour or 3. they were cheap. And because I cant see myself it was all wrong on so many levels. I now find I wear all my clothes and there are none that are pushed to the back of the wardrobe. And I dont have to stop to think will this go with this as all the colours in the swatch go together.